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To: spunkets
"Powell joins a growing group of retired generals and admirals who blame prison abuse on "ambiguous instructions," as the officers wrote in a recent letter. They urged restricting interrogation methods to those outlined in the U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation, the parameters that McCain's measure would establish."
188 posted on 10/06/2005 6:44:03 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

Ok, good to finally see some rational analysis in this thread. Does this actually make anything illegal that was previously legal?

"Cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" was already illegal, wasn't it? Otherwise, what was Lyndie England convicted of?


195 posted on 10/06/2005 7:05:46 AM PDT by Canard
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